Overview
Praise for My Lie
"Meredith Maran is fearless. She's also a wonderful writer, and My Lie is a shockingly honest, stunningly nuanced book. Every parent, and everyone who has a parent, should read this searing father-daughter story."
—Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother and Red Hook Road
"My Lie is the brave and riveting 'inside story' of the most devastating mental health controversy of the century. I couldn't put it down."
—Elizabeth F. Loftus, PhD, former president of the Association for Psychological Science; coauthor of The Myth of Repressed Memory
"Meredith Maran is a wonderful journalist and storyteller, profoundly honest, direct, witty, savvy, and compassionate."
—Anne Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually) and Bird by Bird
"Only a writer as fierce and incisive as Meredith Maran could have written a book as intimate, dark, bracing, and revelatory as My Lie."
—Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Manhood for Amateurs
"This marvelous, searing book held me in its thrall from the moment I read the Prologue, and never let go. Meredith Maran has written a page-turner of a memoir, at once brave and heartbreaking. Who among us hasn't questioned her own memory? In navigating her family history, Maran becomes a detective, and My Lie reads like a mystery all the more suspenseful because the writer has taken great care to tell the truth."
—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir
Synopsis
Praise for My Lie
"Meredith Maran is fearless. She's also a wonderful writer, and My Lie is a shockingly honest, stunningly nuanced book. Every parent, and everyone who has a parent, should read this searing father-daughter story."
—Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother and Red Hook Road
"My Lie is the brave and riveting 'inside story' of the most devastating mental health controversy of the century. I couldn't put it down."
—Elizabeth F. Loftus, PhD, former president of the Association for Psychological Science; coauthor of The Myth of Repressed Memory
"Meredith Maran is a wonderful journalist and storyteller, profoundly honest, direct, witty, savvy, and compassionate."
—Anne Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually) and Bird by Bird
"Only a writer as fierce and incisive as Meredith Maran could have written a book as intimate, dark, bracing, and revelatory as My Lie."
—Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Manhood for Amateurs
"This marvelous, searing book held me in its thrall from the moment I read the Prologue, and never let go. Meredith Maran has written a page-turner of a memoir, at once brave and heartbreaking. Who among us hasn't questioned her own memory? In navigating her family history, Maran becomes a detective, and My Lie reads like a mystery all the more suspenseful because the writer has taken great care to tell the truth."
—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir